gold is valuable as a currency or investment because we believe it is valuable (which is the same reason for valuing money itself). Gold’s value as currency is an abstract social construct.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

The human heart will never wrinkle.

I'm sure we had guys who wanted to go to Stanford like Jason Tomlinson, but it's not like they got offered a scholarship, ... Maryland only offered [a scholarship] to one of our guys, and that was [safety] Greg Sudderth.

When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.